War crimes suspect’s four years of high life on run

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TWO weeks ago he was sunning himself in Mauritius. Last night Ante Gotovina, the former Croatian general arrested while dining in a luxury hotel in Tenerife, was languishing in jail, waiting for a flight to The Hague.

As Mr Gotovina prepared to face the International War Crimes Tribunal, which has indicted him over the murder of 150 Serbs, details emerged yesterday of his lavish jet-setting life on the run. Interpol and a host of secret services sought the top Croatian war crimes suspect in all corners of the world, but he was discovered exactly where a published biography placed him: